2024 Mid-Season Invitational

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2024 Mid-Season Invitational
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Tournament information
Sport League of Legends
Location Chengdu, China
DatesMay 1–19, 2024
Administrator Riot Games
Venue(s) Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center  [ zh ]
Teams12
Final positions
Champions Gen.G
Runner-up Bilibili Gaming
MVP Son "Lehends" Si-woo [1]
(Gen.G)
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The 2024 Mid-Season Invitational was the ninth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends , a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was hosted in Chengdu, China, from May 1 to 19, 2024. All stages of the tournament were played at the Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center  [ zh ].

Contents

JD Gaming from China were the defending champions, but failed to qualify for the event after losing to Top Esports in the lower bracket final of the 2024 LPL Spring Playoffs. [2]

The event was won by Gen.G of South Korea after defeating the previous years' finalist, Bilibili Gaming of China, in the final with a score of 3–1. [3] Gen.G became the second Korean team (after T1) to win an MSI title, and their win marked the first time a non-LPL (Chinese) team has won the event after three consecutive years of prior Chinese winners. [lower-alpha 1] [5] [6]

Format

Eight of the twelve teams started in the play-in stage, with the second seeds from the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), and League Championship Series (LCS) facing the top seeds from Liga Latinoamérica (LLA), Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL), Vietnam Championship Series (VCS), and Pacific Championship Series (PCS). The play-in stage is split into two double-elimination brackets, where each match is in a best-of-three format. The top four teams from the play-in stage advance to the bracket stage, where they will face off against the top seeds from the LCS, LEC, LCK, and LPL. This stage will consist of four matches, each being a best-of-five series, forming a double-elimination bracket. [7]

For the first time, the winner of the MSI will automatically qualify for the 2024 World Championship, provided that they qualify for the playoffs during the 2024 Summer Split in their respective domestic league. [8]

Qualified teams

A total of twelve teams have qualified for the event. The LPL, LCK, LEC and LCS have two teams each represented in event, with one team from each league qualifying directly to the bracket stage. The remaining four teams have qualified for the play-in stage, along with one team each from the PCS, VCS, LLA, and CBLOL. [2] [9]

RegionLeaguePathTeamPool
Starting in the bracket stage
China LPL Spring champion Bilibili Gaming 1
South Korea LCK Spring champion Gen.G
EMEA LEC Spring champion G2 Esports 2
North America LCS Spring champion Team Liquid
Starting in the play-in stage
China LPL Spring runner-up Top Esports 1
South Korea LCK Spring runner-up T1
EMEA LEC Championship points [lower-alpha 2] Fnatic 2
North America LCS Spring runner-up FlyQuest
Asia-Pacific PCS Spring champion PSG Talon 3
Vietnam VCS Spring champion GAM Esports
Brazil CBLOL Spring champion LOUD 4
Latin America LLA Spring championEstral Esports

Venue

Chengdu was the city chosen to host the competition, marking the second time that China will host the tournament, having held the event in 2016. All stages of the tournament will be held at the Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center  [ zh ]. [10]

Chengdu, China
Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center

Play-in stage

Brackets

Group A
Upper round 1Upper finalAdvance to bracket stage
Match 1 – 1 May
PSG Talon1
Match 3 – 3 May
FlyQuest2
FlyQuest0
Match 2 – 1 MayT1
T12
Estral Esports0
T12
Lower round 1Lower final
Match 5 – 5 May
Match 4 – 4 MayFlyQuest0
PSG Talon
PSG Talon2PSG Talon2
Estral Esports0

Source: LoL Esports

Group B
Upper round 1Upper finalAdvance to bracket stage
Match 1 – 2 May
Fnatic2
Match 3 – 3 May
GAM Esports0
Fnatic1
Match 2 – 2 MayTop Esports
Top Esports2
Top Esports2
LOUD0
Lower round 1Lower final
Match 5 – 5 May
Match 4 – 4 MayFnatic2
Fnatic
GAM Esports2GAM Esports0
LOUD1

Source: LoL Esports

Bracket stage

Upper quarterfinalsUpper semifinalsUpper finalFinal
Match 1 – 7 May
Team Liquid0
Match 6 - 11 May
Top Esports3
W1Top Esports2
Match 2 – 8 May
W2Gen.G3
Gen.G3
Match 11 - 16 May
Fnatic0
W6Gen.G3
Match 3 – 9 May
W8Bilibili Gaming1
Bilibili Gaming3
Match 8 - 12 May
PSG Talon2
W3Bilibili Gaming3
Match 4 – 10 May
W4T11
G2 Esports2Match 14 - 19 May
T13W11Gen.G3
W13Bilibili Gaming1
Lower round 1Lower quarterfinalsLower semifinalLower final
Match 9 - 15 May
Match 5 - 11 MayL8T13Match 13 - 18 May
L1Team Liquid3W5Team Liquid1Match 12 - 17 MayL11Bilibili Gaming3
L2Fnatic1W9T13W12T12
Match 10 - 14 MayW10G2 Esports0
Match 7 - 12 MayL6Top Esports0
L3PSG Talon0W7G2 Esports3
L4G2 Esports3

Source: LoL Esports

Ranking

Team ranking

PlaceRegionTeamPrize (%)Prize (USD)
1stLCKGen.G20%
2ndLPLBilibili Esports16%
3rdLCKT112%
4thLECG2 Esports10%
5th–6thLCSTeam Liquid8%
LPLTop Esports
7th–8thPCSPSG Talon6%
LECFnatic
9th–10thVCSGAM Esports4%
LCSFlyQuest
11th–12thCBLOLLOUD3%
LLAEstral Esports

Notes

  1. ↑ There was no MSI event held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
  2. ↑ Due to G2 Esports winning both the LEC Winter and Spring splits, Fnatic qualified by being the next highest LEC team in terms of championship points after the Spring split.

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